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Index “Advantages of a Well-Conducted Literary Society” (Chesnutt), 80–82 Aelioian Literary Society (Oberlin College ), 86 “Afmerica” (Lee), 122, 158nn92–93 African Canadian Wilberforce Lyceum Educating Society (Ontario), 66 “African genius,” 73–74 African Society for Mutual Relief (New York), 149n58; address to (Hamilton), 72–75 African Union Society (Newport, RI), 58 Allen, William G., 11, 72, 94, 148n35; academic title of, 151n74; “Orators and Oratory : Address to the Dialexian Society of New York Central College,” 77–80, 128–29, 150n73, 151n79 Along This Way (Johnson), 27 AME Church Review, 121 American Missionary Society, 49 American Moral Reform Society, 60, 150n72 American Negro Academy, 88 Amistad case, 64 Anderson, James D., 5 Appeal in Four Articles to the Colored Citizens of the World (Walker), 71 Aristotle, 3 Arneaux, J. A., 68 Ashmun Institute (Chester County, PA), 19 “at homes.” See domestic rhetoric Augustine, Saint: in defense of Christian rhetoric, 110, 156n43; as an example of black intellect, 156n44 authenticating documents, 2; function of, 137n6 Autobiography of a Female Slave (Griffith), 35, 142n15 Autobiography of an Ex–Coloured Man (Johnson), 27 Autographs for Freedom (Griffiths), 78 Avery College, 123, 158n94 Bacon, Francis, 81 Bacon, Jacqueline, 75, 115 Bailey, Gamaliel, 98 Ballou, Maturin: Treasury of Thought, 48 Baltimore Lyceum Observer, 19 Barber, Edward D., 112, 156n52 “Bars Fight” (Terry), 1 Bates, William, 119 Baxter, Richard, 119 Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years A Slave and Four Years in the White House (Keckley ), 41, 143n32 Bell, Philip A., 151n80 Beman, Amos G., 71, 113–14, 149n54 Bennett, Paula, 122, 158nn92–93 Berlant, Lauren, 89 Bethel AME Church (Baltimore), 16, 139n25 Bethel AME Church (Chicago), 121 Bethel Literary and Historical Association (Washington, DC), 80 Index Bethel Literary Circle (Indianapolis), 117 Bibb, Henry, 65 Bibb, Mary, 65, 99 Biden, Joe, 3 Bingham, Caleb: Columbian Orator, 17, 108, 139n28 Bitzer, Lloyd, 3 black codes, 46 black counterpublic: as alternative public spheres, 152n108; public meetings constituting a, 106 Black Phalanx (Wilson), 18 black press. See newspapers, black Black Warrior, 22 Blair, Hugh. See Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Blair Education Bill, 68, 148n45 Blyden, Edward, 87 Bode, Carl, 59, 91 Boston Literary and Historical Association , 80 Brandt, Deborah, 85 Brewer, John, 70, 126 Brodhead, Richard, 51 Bronson, Cotesworth P., 109, 155n36 Brooklyn Literary Union, 61, 68–69, 82; address to 82–84; official name of, 152n87 Brown, Antoinette, L., 78, 116, 148n36 Brown, Hallie Quinn, 144n46 Burke, Kenneth, 3 Burns, Anthony, 36, 130, 159n126 Camp Parapet (LA), 22 Canada: literary societies in, 65 Carmichael, Stokely, 5 Carretta, Vincent, 18 Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 48, 99, 131 Central College (McGrawville, NY), 66, 72, 97 Channing, William Ellery, 78; “Address on Temperance,” 109, 155n40 Chase, Samuel, 2 Chesnutt, Charles W. 30–32, 49–53, 133; “Advantages of a Well-Conducted Literary Society,” 80–81, 95; conversations with Elder J. W. Davis on preaching, 52; and diary as chief means of rhetorical education, 50; early schooling of, 49; early writing practices of, 50–52; and gender influence, 50; on his invention process, 52; and the Howard School, 49–50; and Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 51; influence of Cicero and Robert Harris on, 49; on the oratory of Joseph C. Price, 52–53; sense of isolation, 50, 52 Chester, Thomas Morris, 20, 140n39 Chicago Inter-Ocean, 101, 132 Child, Lydia Maria: Philothea, 37 Christian Recorder, 77; and Civil War correspondence , 19–24; on the lack of literary societies, 67; on the performance of Avery College students, 123; Benjamin Tucker Tanner’s essays in, 110–11 Christian Slave, The (Stowe), 97, 122–26 Cicero, 79 cigar factories, 25–28; African American presence in, 27–28, 141n64 citizenship schools, 5 Civil Rights Act (1866), 25 Civil War: and rhetorical education, 18– 24, 133 Clark, Gregory, 96–97 Clark, Susan, 124 Clay, Henry, 77 Cmiel, Kenneth, 104 Cole, Dora J., 118 College Language Association, 4 College of Life or Practical Self-Educator: A Manual of Improvement for the Colored Race, 54–55 Collins, John H. W. N., 22, 141n46 colonization, 64 Colored American, 63, 77; on the benefits of reading widely, 111; and Demosthenian Institute, 62; on literary societies, 67, 70–71; in praise of patriotic eloquence, 112;publicmeetingsreportedin,104;on Uncle Jack (The African Preacher), 120; onwhoshouldspeakpublicly,107–8;on woman’s use of eloquence, 116 Colored Reading Society of Philadelphia for Mental Improvement, 60; address to (Whipper), 75 Index Colored Woman in a White World, A (Terrell ), 86–87 Columbian Orator, The (Bingham), 17, 108...
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